Juanita Kreps Quotes

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

The relative positions assumed by men and women were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence.

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

I've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.